Applied Artificial Intelligence

Information Theory Applied to Wordle

A Simple Algorithm that Plays the Popular Game Wordle

Diego Unzueta
Towards Data Science
8 min readFeb 14, 2022

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Wordle has gone viral in 2022. You may have seen these green amber and gray tiles all over social media. Wordle is a simple yet fun game where you are given 6 attempts to correctly guess the 5 letter word. Every time you make a guess…

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